Not one of these conversations does anything to bolster Dr. Ford’s still utterly unsubstantiated allegation. It remains the case that she never mentioned the supposed assault to anyone for thirty years after it occurred. She first mentioned it in therapy (that’s not suspicious at all!) and the therapist’s notes give no indication that she raised Brett Kavanaugh’s name at the time. Even if she did, that was 2012, a presidential election year that could very easily have ended with the dawn of a Romney presidency. Brett Kavanaugh had already been on the shortlist of potential GOP Supreme Court appointments for nearly a decade at that time.
There is nothing in any of the conversations described in this article to diminish at all the natural suspicion that Dr. Ford’s allegation is a recent, politically-motivated invention. From long before the first moment she mentioned the allegation to anyone, the situation we find ourselves in now has been entirely predictable and widely predicted. There may be evidence somewhere that Dr. Ford’s allegation is something more than a despicable smear invented to give the left a political advantage, but you won’t find it this article. I’m betting you won’t find it anywhere.
I’m sorry for that. That’s my failure in communicating. I’ve been outraged over Dr. Ford’s treatment (thanks for reminding me of her correct title) and honestly stunned at how eager many are to believe the least believable defenses of Kavanaugh. Snark is my way of mocking that kind of eager gullibility, but I’m realizing snark isn’t really what’s needed right now.
Any allegation is “unsubstantiated” if you don’t question witnesses under oath, particularly one who was in the room at the time. To not do so, shows EXACTLY where this rigged Committee process is.
I would appreciate your explaining to me what the all-fired rush is beyond the possibility that the Republicans could lose the Senate in November. The argument that a 4-4 Court is bad won’t wash, since if that were the case, they wouldn’t have sat for a year on Merrick Garland’s nomination, would they have?
Like they did when Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and put his birth annoucement in the newspaper and I think is it disgraceful of them to keep this knowledge to themselves! s/
This entire experience is disheartening and disgusting. I feel for Dr. Ford and all victims who are brandished liars before they are believed. Through no fault of her own this became a circus. She spoke out before the expected vetting process began. Unfortunately she didn’t know the vetting would be skipped. The politicians, from Feinstein to Grassley to McConnell et al have ensured that we all bear scars from this debacle.
which is how Hillary Killary the fembot from the future who is also a cyborg and a sorceress has succeeded in bothering these great and noble men by entrapping them in a web of lies and deceit after arranging her own electoral downfall - sinister.
well now, the GOP , according to AP, ‘struggles’ with the ‘issue’ of women’s ‘equity’. I suggest a 1/2 hour seminar for top GOP officials the entire focus of which will be to train them to interact with women by :
A) assessing their desirability and worth based on their appearance
B) after looking at the body parts you like most, maintain contact with their eyes for at least 1/4 of the time that they are blabbing before you dismiss them.
Not so. In fact, these statements would even be admissible in federal court as non-hearsay substantive evidence of the assault.
The considered wisdom of the federal judiciary (as embodied in the federal rules of evidence) holds that prior consistent statements like these can be used to defeat a claim – like yours – that her testimony was recently fabricated to attack his nomination.
Rule 801(d)(1)(B) allows a witness’s prior consistent statement if it is offered “to rebut an express or implied charge that the declarant recently fabricated” her testimony. “Recently fabricated” just means that the testimony was made up after the motive to lie – in this case, the nomination.
It is really unfair to hold good ol’ Brett responsible for the harm he did to Blasey Ford. How was he to know that a young woman is a human being? I mean, look at Grassley - he still hasn’t figured it out!
